DAVIE COUNTY MARKET

Davie County, North Carolina Farmers Market — Buy & Sell Local Crops Near You

🌽 Davie County has more backyard fruit trees and home gardens than anyone could eat from. Crop Market connects them with neighbors in Advance, Cooleemee and and Mocksville. North Carolina favorites like blueberries and strawberries show up here when they're in season. Listing is free and you keep 100% of every local sale.

Farming in Davie County by the Numbers

Davie County has 594 farms on 74,899 acres (about 126 acres each). Together they sold $30.6 million of farm products in 2022, led by soybeans, corn and poultry & eggs.

Orchards and vineyards here grow grapes, apples and figs, and local fields produce pumpkins, cantaloupes, tomatoes and watermelons. Beekeepers tend about 321 honey bee colonies.

28 farms in Davie County already sell straight to the public, about $151,000 a year in direct sales. Crop Market gives them, and every backyard grower, a free way to reach more neighbors.

Source: USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2022 Census of Agriculture.

Farm Life in Davie County

Out in the pastures and barnyards, Davie County counts 8,671 head of cattle, 703 sheep and 661 horses and ponies. Grass-fed beef sold by the quarter or half is a common way ranchers sell direct.

About 1,002 people run or help run farms in Davie County, with an average age of 60. 37% of them are women. 51 are under 35 - the next generation of local growers. 13 farms earn money from agritourism - things like u-pick fields, pumpkin patches, farm stays and corn mazes.